ATTRIBUTED TO RICHARD NORMAN SHAW FOR MORRIS & COMPANY
SET OF FOUR BEECH 'HAMPTON COURT' DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1900
£500
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
each with broad splats above rush seats on tapered legs linked by stretchers
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Dimensions
45.5cm wide, 94.5cm high, 39cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Bennett, Daryl Liberty's Furniture, Woodbridge 2012, p.260 pl.7.37 for an illustration of the 1911 Morris and Co catalogue which includes this design.
Note: Examples of this chair appear in the National Trust Collection at Standen House and Wightwick Manor and in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge